To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer in what circumstances families with children and earnings of less than £235 a week will pay net income tax. [81724]

The Chancellor announced in his Budget Statement that the minimum income guarantee under the WFTC to every family with children and with full-time earnings would increase to £200 a week. He also said that no such family earning less than £235 a week would pay any net income tax from October 1999.